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Thermodynamic instabilities in dynamical quark models with complex conjugate mass poles

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-10-04 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We show that the CJT thermodynamic potential of dynamical quark models with a quark propagator represented by complex conjugate mass poles inevitably exhibits thermodynamic instabilities. We find that the minimal coupling of the quark sector to a Polyakov loop potential can strongly suppress but not completely remove such instabilities. This general effect is explicitly demonstrated in the framework of a covariant, chirally symmetric, effective quark model.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1206.6582,
  title  = {Thermodynamic instabilities in dynamical quark models with complex conjugate mass poles},
  author = {Sanjin Benić and David Blaschke and Michael Buballa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.6582},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

Minor typos corrected, submitted version

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